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| ## ◆ merge_patch()
void nlohmann::basic_json::merge_patch | ( | const basic_json & | apply_patch | ) |
| inline
  The merge patch format is primarily intended for use with the HTTP PATCH method as a means of describing a set of modifications to a target resource's content. This function applies a merge patch to the current JSON value. The function implements the following algorithm from Section 2 of RFC 7396 (JSON Merge Patch): define MergePatch(Target, Patch): if Patch is an Object: if Target is not an Object: Target = {} // Ignore the contents and set it to an empty Object for each Name/Value pair in Patch: if Value is null: if Name exists in Target: remove the Name/Value pair from Target else: Target[Name] = MergePatch(Target[Name], Value) return Target else: return Patch Thereby, `Target` is the current object; that is, the patch is applied to the current value. Parameters
  [in] | apply_patch | the patch to apply
  Complexity Linear in the lengths of patch. Example The following code shows how a JSON Merge Patch is applied to a JSON document. 1 #include <iostream> 2 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp> 3 #include <iomanip> // for std::setw 4 5 using json = nlohmann::json; 6 7 int main() 8 { 9 // the original document 10 json document = R"({ 11 "title": "Goodbye!", 12 "author": { 13 "givenName": "John", 14 "familyName": "Doe" 15 }, 16 "tags": [ 17 "example", 18 "sample" 19 ], 20 "content": "This will be unchanged" 21 })"_json; 22 23 // the patch 24 json patch = R"({ 25 "title": "Hello!", 26 "phoneNumber": "+01-123-456-7890", 27 "author": { 28 "familyName": null 29 }, 30 "tags": [ 31 "example" 32 ] 33 })"_json; 34 35 // apply the patch 36 document.merge_patch(patch); 37 38 // output original and patched document 39 std::cout << std::setw(4) << document << std::endl; 40 } Output (play with this example online):
      {
          "author": {
              "givenName": "John"
          },
          "content": "This will be unchanged",
          "phoneNumber": "+01-123-456-7890",
          "tags": [
              "example"
          ],
          "title": "Hello!"
      }
  The example code above can be translated with
      g++ -std=c++11 -Isingle_include doc/examples/merge_patch.cpp -o merge_patch
See also patch – apply a JSON patch RFC 7396 (JSON Merge Patch) Since version 3.0.0 Definition at line 24366 of file json.hpp.

nlohmann::basic_json::merge_patch
void merge_patch(const basic_json &apply_patch)
applies a JSON Merge Patch
Definition: json.hpp:24366
nlohmann::json
basic_json<> json
default JSON class
Definition: json.hpp:2774
nlohmann::basic_json::patch
basic_json patch(const basic_json &json_patch) const
applies a JSON patch
Definition: json.hpp:23895